From Justice Department Producer Terry Frieden

                  WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno continues
                  to leave open the possibility of meeting this week with three Miami relatives
                  of 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez, Justice Department officials say. If a meeting
                  is arranged, Reno would likely meet in her office Wednesday or Thursday
                  with Lazaro Gonzalez, the boy's great-uncle, and two of the boy's second
                  cousins, Marisleysis Gonzalez and Georgina Cid-Gonzalez.

                  They are fighting an immigration order that would send the boy back to
                  Cuba.

                  Elian was plucked from the Florida Straits on Thanksgiving Day as he clung
                  to an inner tube. He and his mother had been among 14 Cubans on a boat
                  that capsized while en route to the United States. The shipwrecked
                  immigration attempt left his mother and 10 other people dead.

                  The Miami relatives' request for a meeting reached Reno on Friday through
                  a letter from Sen. Bob Smith, R-New Hampshire. Smith said the Miami
                  relatives, who have temporary custody of Elian, told Reno in the letter that
                  they "have new information to share with you." He did not disclose the nature
                  of the information.

                  Reno has met with Miami officials, an attorney for Lazaro Gonzalez, Elian's
                  grandmothers, and the two Catholic nuns who hosted a meeting between
                  Elian and his grandmothers.

                  Justice Department lawyers Monday continued to work on a response to a
                  letter Reno received last week from Elian's father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez,
                  who has been pressing for his son's immediate return to Cuba. In the letter,
                  he asked that temporary custody of the boy be transferred to another of the
                  boy's Miami uncles, Manolo Gonzalez. No response was expected before
                  Tuesday.