from federal health officials. they have revealed that workers cleaning out a storage room at the national institutes of heath in maryland stumbled across several virals of smallpox that weren t properly stored or locked up. as you know, smallpox is one of the deadliest viruses on earth. it is the second time in a month that there have been concerns about the handling of deadly viruses at federal labs. the cdc said last month that more than 80 workers were potentially exposed to anthrax. a former pharmacy chief at a new york city hospital is accused of stealing millions of dollars in painkillers. prosecutors say 47-year-old anthony de alessandro took nearly 200,000 oxycodone and other pills from beth israel medical center, which ended up on the black market. the drugs have a street value of about $5.6 million. he is being charged under a state drug kingpin law normally used for big-time street dealers. also in new york city, brooklyn d.a. to stop low-level weed prosecutions. it s b