Newscast: Tuesday, August 8, 2012, 5:50 p.m.

State officials say they’re planning to appeal dozens of cases where FEMA has refused to cover all the costs of town flood recovery projects; Secretary of State Jim Condos says Vermont needs to review its early voting law to make sure that voters actually request early ballots themselves, and commentator Bill Schubart has been thinking about bullies, buses and unregulated bullets.