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1. CHP GRADUATION VO/SOT The Highway Patrol will swear in 130 new officers during a graduation ceremony at the academy in West Sacramento. Among those graduating are two brothers, an Iraq war veteran and a single mother who's a paramedic. Efforting soundbites and video.
2. MARIJUANA PAIN RELIEF VO/SOT A clinical trial by University of California Davis researchers indicates that is possibly the case for patients with pain caused by nerve damage. Participants with multiple sclerosis and spinal injuries who were given cigarettes with marijuana experienced greater pain relief than those who were given cigarettes not containing THC. Efforting soundbites and video.
3. TOXIC VITAMINS? VO/SOT The Office of Environmental Health Hazards Assessment will conduct a workshop regarding proposed regulations to require certain levels of vitamins and nutritional supplements be listed as potentially toxic if such products contained amounts of the substance that were above levels deemed to be beneficial. Currently vitamin A and chromium are the only such substances listed under Proposition 65 which is the law requiring a warning label for chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive harm. Those chemicals are known to cause such problems in high doses but are necessary at certain levels to maintain healthy nutrition. Efforting soundbites and video.
4. NEW REPUBLICAN LEADER VO/SOT Feeding soundbites and video with the new Republican leader in the State Senate about upcoming budget negotiations.
5. SPAM BILL VO/SOT An assembly committee passed a bill that attempts to reduce spam, not canned ham but the annoying email. Some members of the Judiciary Committee expressed concern over regulation given that much of it comes from offshore servers and that attempts to reduce junk paper mail have been unsuccessful. Feeding soundbites and video.
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Rescinded Health Policies Revisited The Department of Managed Health Care director announced she will reopen thousands of health insurance policies rescinded by the state's top five insurers during the last four years when policy holders became ill so an independent arbiter can review the cases and potentially reinstate those who wrongly had their coverage terminated. 26 such policies were ordered to be immediately reinstated by the director.
Millennial Makeover The USC School of Policy will host a presentation by authors of a new book entitled "Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube and the Future of American Politics." The book forecasts these impacts on elections, issues and public policy in the coming decades.
GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is at Yale University for a conference on global warming with governors from throughout the nation and Mexico. Schwarzenegger will give the key note address.
LEGISLATURE'S SCHEDULE The Senate and Assembly are not in session. Today is the last day for bills to be out of policy committees in their respective houses.
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