Midday Newscast: October 3, 2008

Peter Welch has faced the question of whether to support the latest version of the federal bailout of the financial industry; Former Vermont federal prosecutor George Terwilliger says the Justice Department should drop its criminal investigation of Alberto Gonzales; the seventh annual Brattleboro Literary Festival takes place this weekend; three people in the Northeast Kingdom have been diagnosed with disease related to the E. coli bacteria.