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Posted: 5:51 a.m. Friday, March 16, 2012

Toddler drowns in bucket of water 

Warm and humid again today, sunny and 82.  We'll have a warm and dry weekend and early next week we are tracking rain, it looks like Tuesday.  

More than 100 homes in southeast Michigan are damaged or destroyed in a tornado.  The storm ripped through the town of Dexter.  Amazingly there are no reports of injuries.   

Today's interview lineup:

At 6:10 hear Matt Augustine at the Jacksonville Apple store, where people lined up since Midnight for the new iPad.

At 6:53 hear  Jamie Dupree explain why the Obama re-election campaign is on.

At 8:10 we heard Matt Augustine describe how the opening of the Apple store went for this morning's  iPad release.

At 8:23 hear Jamie Dupree explain why a U.S. Senator is still able to run for re-election despite being told he's no longer a resident of his district.

Our Top Local Story:  A one year-old drowns in a bucket of water and bleach.  It happened at a westside apartment when the toddler wandered out of the house.  Mom was cooking dinner at the time.  DCF and the Jacksonville police are still investigating but it appears this was a tragic accident. 

Looks like another meth lab is being cleaned up.  This time it's at the Woodhollow Apartments on Hodges and Atlantic.  We were on scene all day Thursday as police and hazmat crews cleaned up the place.  Four apartments had to be sealed off. 

An Orange Park woman is killed in a house fire.  The 45-year-old woman was found dead inside a duplex on McIntosh Avenue. No word on the cause of the fire but investigators say it appears to be an accident.

Our Top National Story is You Decide 2012, the delegate fight moves to Puerto Rico.  However the state of Missouri won't have results announced this weekend.  Rick Santorum already won the beauty contest but the puzzling delegate selection process will delay the results until at least late April.  See Jamie Dupree's explanation here

They started lining up in the dead of night outside the Apple Store at the St. Johns Town Center for the new iPad. The latest generation of the ground-breaking tablet goes on sale today.

The attorney for two serial killers is now representing the Army soldier who is accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians.  John Henry Browne says the soldier has received several awards, and was nominated for a bronze star.  The soldier's identity is still being kept secret and we have reports he may be heading back to the U.S. 

That yellow stuff you're seeing all over your car and yard is tree pollen and it's causing many of you to suffer with itching eyes and sneezing.  We're in the peak of pollen season right now.  Adults as well as kids 3 and older at a high risk for allergies and you can usually tell the difference between allergies and a cold because allergies cause itching and the common cold does not.

Helping kids is what Tim Tebow's all about, and that's the goal of Timmy's Playroom.  The center's first location, on Jacksonville's Southside, opened its doors with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Tebow says while the moments before games are inheritently stressful, his ritual of meeting kids puts him at ease.

Two firefighters in Titusville face charges after allegedly poisoning a co-worker's canteen.  They have resigned from the department.  Police say one has already admitted his role in the incident.

Sentenced to die for taking the life of his parents with the swing of a baseball bat.  A judge in Nassau County just sentenced Gregory Larkin to death for the 2009 killings of Myra and Richard Larkin.  Prosecutors say the guy snuck up behind his mother in her Amelia Island home, swung the bat several times, killing her, then he attacked his father.

 
 
 

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