A page from Katie’s notebook:

It’s the most explosive moment for the soda industry since the Diet Coke and Mentos experiment.
Some leading health experts are calling for a sin tax on the surgary beverages Americans drink, like it’s going out of style.
They say that a tax of one cent per ounce on soft drinks sweetened with sugar could be a major source of revenue for health care reform – pulling in nearly 15 billion dollars a year.
It may also be a way to combat obesity. UCLA researchers found that people who drink soda are 27 times more likely to be overweight. A regular, daily soda drinker can consume – get this – 39 pounds of sugar a year just from those drinks. Gulp!

If soda is so bad, why isn’t Couric pushing for CBS to ban soda ads on the network?