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• Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
• 1. U.S. SURVEILLANCE SURVIVES CLOSE VOTE
• The House voted 217-205 to reject a bid to halt the NSA program that collects millions of Americans' phone and Internet records.
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• 2. HIGH-SPEED TRAIN DERAILS IN SPAIN
• At least 77 people were killed and 140 injured when the train jumped the tracks after a curve in the country's worst rail accident in decades.
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• 3. OBAMA TAKES ECONOMIC MESSAGE TO FLORIDA
• The president will speak at a Jacksonville port to turn Americans' attention away from gridlock in Congress and onto the economy.
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• 4. POPE AIMS TO INSPIRE YOUTH
• Francis is meeting with over 1 million young Roman Catholics in Rio and visiting a slum, after pleading this week that the faithful shun materialism.
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• 5. WEINER ASKS VOTERS TO STICK WITH HIM
• A new poll is due out today on the New York City mayor's race, taken after the candidate's admission he continued sexting after resigning from Congress.
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• 6. WHERE THE MAIL WON'T BE DELIVERED
• Congress approved a plan to stop delivering mail door-to-door by 2022, instead of moving to curbside delivery and cluster boxes.
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• 7. NEW WELL CONSIDERED AT BURNING RIG
• Officials hope the relief well will stop gas from spewing from the out-of-control rig off the Louisiana coast.
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• 8. FAMOUS FIRST DAUGHTER TAPPED FOR DIPLOMATIC POST
• Obama named Caroline Kennedy U.S. ambassador to Japan.
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