Midday Report: May 16, 2006

Vermont’s adjutant General says the National Guard is ready, if called to the southern border; a familiar name re-enters Vermont politics; the village of Bellows Falls votes decisively to keep fluoridating its water; the Vermont Health Department is notifying patients who might have been exposed to whooping cough at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire; many towns in southern and central New Hampshire are still flooded out and more rain is on the way.