Midday Report: October 30, 2006

With Election Day just over a week away, the long debating season is winding down; a new study of toxins in fish reveals chemical stress in the Connecticut River basin; about thirty-five hundred electric utility customers were still without power at mid-morning following the weekend’s high winds. Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy says he believes scientific information about climate change is being censored by the federal government; the state has produced a documentary film to highlight the rising number of prescription drug thefts by health care workers.