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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Amy Held. Millions of Americans are worried about where they may get their next meal. Food banks are seeing an immediate uptick in demand, despite two judges' orders Friday that the Trump administration provide funding for the SNAP Food Assistance Program during the government shutdown. From member station KQED in San Francisco, Dana Cronin, reports. Food banks here in the Bay Area are ramping up efforts in response to the hundreds of calls they say they've received so far

from people seeking relief. Caitlin Sly is the CEO of the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano. She says it's unclear what happens next after the Trump administration was ordered to fund SNAP. Either way, we're looking at at least a week, probably more that the hungry in our community are going to go without food. Sly says her organization is opening additional distribution sites and deploying more food and personnel to meet the increased demand. For NPR News, I'm Dana Cronin in San Francisco. Former President Barack Obama is rallying Democrats ahead of Tuesdays off-year elections. Obama campaigned in Virginia and in New Jersey, Saturday on behalf of his party's gubernatorial nominees.

NPR Sarah McCammon has more from Norfolk, Virginia. Democrats have little power in Washington, but in Virginia, the party currently controls the state legislature and hopes to take over the governor's office. campaigning in Norfolk, former President Barack Obama urged Democrats to get to the polls before voting ends on Tuesday. If we want a country that believes in free speech and the rule of law, then we have to fight for it, even when it's hard or inconvenient. Other closely watched races include New Jersey's gubernatorial election and New York City's mayoral race. Sarah McCammon, NPR News, Norfolk. In baseball, the Los Angeles Dodgers have done it again. World Series champs defeating the Toronto Blue Jays in game seven, the score five to four in 11

innings. L.A. trailed for much of the game before winning an extra innings. Dodgers fan, Jeff Reeve, flew out to Toronto from Los Angeles to catch his hometown teams win. You're down three nothing, three one, top of the ninth. But baseball, you got to play nine innings, right? So it was amazing. The Dodgers plan a parade to celebrate on Monday. Britain's defense minister today said last night's mass stabbing attack on a London-bound train appears to be an isolated incident. Two people remain in life-threatening condition. Police say multiple were stabbed. Some terrified passengers hid in the bathroom as the attack unfolded.

Police have arrested two suspects. That happened when the train stopped in the eastern town of Huntington. Police say they do not consider it to be a terrorist incident. You're listening to NPR News. President Trump's renovations at the White House are not stopping at the East Wing. NPR's Chloe Veltman reports the Lincoln bathroom has already been remodeled in marble and in gold. In a post on social media, President Trump said the renovation to the so-called Lincoln bathroom is, quote, very appropriate for the time of Abraham Lincoln.

But according to former White House Historical Association Chief historian Edward Lengel, It did not actually become a bathroom until Teddy Roosevelt's time. Lengel says in Lincoln's Day that space was part of an office belonging to one of the president's aides and marble wasn't used in bathrooms during the Civil War era. Lengel says it's common for presidents to alter the White House, though most don't publicize it. He adds Trump did the right thing by putting his own spin on the decor.

Truman's bathroom looks kind of bleak. Lengel says the toilet in the new bathroom is perfectly placed for the sitter to look out the window and watch the. renovations going on in the East Wing. Chloe Veltman, NPR News. New details are emerging this morning about last month's audacious jewel heist at the Louvre Museum. The Paris prosecutor today said two of the suspects being held had previously been convicted together in another theft case from 10 years ago.

Officials say they relied on DNA and phone records for this case. In all four suspects are being held in custody. charges include theft by an organized gang and criminal conspiracy. Despite the arrests, some $100 million worth of jewels from the world's most visited museum remain missing. It's NPR News.