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It's going to happen in Rio.

I'm Conan Nolan sitting in for Warren Olney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International,

a daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

The Olympic movement for the first time heads to the South American continent. Rio de Janeiro is

picked to host the 2016 Summer Games, besting Madrid, Tokyo, and Chicago. The windy city,

the first to be eliminated, a shocker. This after a personal pitch from President Obama. What happened? And is this

a blow to the president who was criticized for making the trip? On reporter's notebook later on,

rewriting the book on evolution, how the discovery of a four and a half million-year-old fossil

has researchers rethinking the appearance and behavior of our most distant relatives.

First, the news.

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scole.org. I'm Conan Nolan of NBC television in Los Angeles sitting in for Warren

Olney back with To the Point from PRI. In a moment, we explore today's decision to grant the 2016

Summer Olympic Games to Rio de Janeiro, with Chicago being eliminated in the first round of voting.

On reporter's notebook, a major find in the Ethiopian desert is painting a remarkable picture on what

life was like for our earliest evolutionary ancestors. First, this news update,

new labor figures indicate the U.S. lost another 263,000 jobs in the month of September. That's a

larger job loss than was recorded in August. This comes at a time when many economists believe the

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