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Posted: 5:37 a.m. Thursday, March 1, 2012

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Fog isn't as bad as this time yesterday.  Warm and humid again with temps in the low 80's.  Fog could be back tomorrow morning.  We're still warm and humid through Saturday, when we have rain and thunderstorms in the afternoon.  Cooler on Sunday. 

Today's interview lineup:

At 6:53 hear Jamie Dupree in Georgia, where Gingrich and Santorum are shadowboxing eachother. 

At 8:10 hear Fox's Jennifer Keiper from the scene of deadly tornadoes in Illinois. 

At 8:23 hear Jamie Dupree at a Gingrich event in Atlanta, followed by a Santorum event on the other side of town.

Our Top National Story:  A dozen people in three states have died in a series of tornadoes.  The mayor of Harrisburg, Illinois, where six people died, credits weather spotters with getting the word out in time for sirens to sound a warning that allowed most people to scramble to safety even though it was nighttime.

You Decide 2012 update:  Turns out Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum tied in Michigan's delegate count.  Romney won the total state vote, but that only meant 2 delegates. Santorum tells supporters he won Michigan by splitting the delegates.  Romney is in North Dakota, Idaho and Washington state today.  Santorum and Gingrich are holding dueling events in Georgia.  Super Tuesday is next week.

If you check Facebook on your phone, get ready to see pop up ads every time you log out.  The ads start in April.

Google is streamlining its privacy policy and a lot of people are fearing it will be able to dig even deeper into your life.  Google says the changes allow it to create more helpful and compelling services.  Several legal questions are swirling about privacy rights.

The controversial birth control policy faces its first vote today.  We'll be watching the Senate act on the Republican rollback of the Obama policy on birth control coverage.  Democrats say its really an effort to strip away women's rights.

Another new fee could be coming for Bank of America customers.  They plan to require many users of basic checking accounts to pay a monthly fee, unless they agree to bank online or maintain a certain balance. 
As the Wall Street Journal reports, J.P. Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo have rolled out plans that aim to raise fees.  Remember last fall Bank of America scrapped a 5 dollar debit card fee.

Our Top Local Story:  Imagine how you would react to hearing your teenager is chucking rocks off the highway overpass?  A Jacksonville mom made her sons apologize, with TV cameras rolling, to the man who was hurt when a rock broke through the windshield of a truck driver lsat week on I-10 and Chaffee.

Mixed emotions at the funeral for two Fruit Cove boys who were killed by their mother before she killed herself.  Outside the church a family friend says Gayle McCollough loved her two sons Daniel and William Rashley.  The boys will be buried in Ohio where their father lives.

A plan to shut down so-called "Internet cafes" is set to pass in the state House -- but will likely die in the Senate.  Opponents say Internet cafes are a form of illegal gambling for low-income people.

17 dogs are rescued from a northside dog fighting ring.  Several dogs are seriously hurt.  Willie Coleman who owns Coleman's Kennels is under arrest and charged with animal cruelty.

Some of the nearly 700 cats rescued from that pet sanctuary in the panhandle are being temporarily sheltered in Jacksonville.  Many of the cats are in bad shape.  The Ponte Vedra man who runs the Caboodle Ranch is facing several charges of animal cruelty.  We have tried to reach him for an interview but so far have not connected.

 
 
 

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