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Posted: 6:15 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012
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A bit warmer and more humid today with temps in the mid 80's. A stray shower or thunderstorm tomorrow but the weekend looks fantastic. Temps Saturday and Sunday will be in the upper 70's with low humidity and lots of sun.
Today's interview lineup:
At 6:53 hear Jamie Dupree explain how the polls don't appear to have moved much since Tuesday night's debate.
At 8:23 hear Jamie Dupree explain why we're going to see more from the Romney and Obama campaigns around the weekend and early next week.
Our Top National Story: The schedule becomes part of the story in You Decide 2012. Both Obama and Romney leave Florida after next Monday's debate with 14 days of campaigning, and ten swing states. See Jamie Dupree's blog on the tough choices both campaigns face in the closing days of the race.
The campaign takes a slight detour today, as both Obama and Romney deliver jokes at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner. The white-tie gala at New York City's Waldorf Astoria Hotel has been a required stop for politicians since the end of World War Two.
Mitt Romney will join Paul Ryan at a rally in Daytona Beach tomorrow night. They'll campaign ahead of Monday's final debate in Boca Raton. We'll carry it live Monday night at 9. Both Romney and Ryan will spend time this weekend raising money in Florida. Vice President Joe Biden will campaign in the state Friday and Saturday.
Florida matters. The state's Republican Party Chairman says Monday's final presidential debate in Boca is evidence of how critical we are. Lenny Curry tells WOKV News he thinks the race will come down to Florida and he is committed to delivering for Mitt Romney.
Nearly a full hour of nasty jabs in the only Florida Senate debate. Incumbent Bill Nelson was blasted for gutting Medicare and voting with President Obama more than 90% of the time. His Republican challenger Connie Mack was accused of distorting the facts and a poor attendance record in Congress. The average of all polls by Real Clear Politics shows Nelson up nearly seven points.
The War on Terror: A 21-year-old man arrested on charges he plotted to blow up the Federal Reserve building in New York City is being held without bail after appearing in federal court. Quazi Nafis was arrested Wednesday after a sting operation. Authorities say he parked a van filled with what he believed were explosives outside the building and tried to detonate it. His bomb was not real, though, and his associates actually were undercover officers who arrested him.
Our Top Local Story: A two-year-old boy in Bradford County is found dead at the bottom of a septic tank. Aiden Howard was reported missing Wednesday and, about 45 minutes later he was found. Bradford County Sheriff Gordon Smith says it could have been prevented if someone had simply covered up the tank.
Two kids under the age of ten were living in a meth lab in a mobile home on the southside. Police were called to the home off Beach and Hodges Wednesday. Police say the kids were living in deplorable conditions. Neighbors say the father told them he was fired from his job after being drug tested.
A man in Fleming Island is accused of secretly videotaping a girl as she was undressing. Police say 51-year-old Melvin Holmes installed the camera without the girl's knowledge and consent and recorded her dressing and undressing. Holmes is the packaging and distribution manager at the Times-Union, and investigators say his work computer contained several pictures and videos of the girl while she was naked.
The family of ex-U.S. Sen. George McGovern says the 90-year-old is no longer responsive in hospice care. McGovern's family issued a statement Wednesday afternoon through Avera McKennan Hospital. His daughter has said McGovern is nearing the end and appears restful and peaceful. McGovern has lived the last few years in St. Augustine Beach.
Two-thirds of the national college class of 2011 finished school with loan debt. And a new report shows those who borrowed walked off the graduation stage owing on average $26,600. That's up about 5 percent from the class before.
Trying to get control of Chicago's crime problem through taxes. We find a politician in the windy city proposing a new tax of a nickel for every bullet, and $25 for each gun sold in Cook County. Money generated through the tax would apparently help pay for treatment of gunshot victims.
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