Midday Newscast: November 13, 2007

A new economic forecast says New England’s economy will begin to break out of its recent run of slow growth starting in the second quarter of next year; a ribbon-cutting ceremony will take place this afternoon in Springfield on a new house that was built by inmates at the women’s prison in Windsor; officials say two rivers in Rutland County are back to normal after they were treated with chemicals to control sea lampreys; veterans who served on the USS Bennington want the U.S. Navy to commission a new ship by that name.