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Posted: 5:52 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012

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Another spectacular day with temps in the low 80's and partly sunny skies. We have a slight chance of a passing shower this afternoon. It's dry and comfortable the rest of this week with temps in the low to mid-80's.

Today's interview lineup:

At 6:53 hear Governor Rick Scott explain why the early voting changes have clearly been successful, and whether he says the lawsuit filed by Congresswoman Corrine Brown is a waste of taxpayer money.

At 7:23 hear reporter Matt Augustine explain the qualities Duval County School Board members want out of their new superintendent as they prepare to make the selection today.

8:23 hear Alison Burns in our Washington bureau explain what President Obama is now saying about the Libyan consulate attack and what he's going to tell the United Nations about it.

At 8:53 hear Congresswoman Corrine Brown explain what steps she plans to take after a federal judge upheld Florida's early voting law.

ur Top Local Story:
More than $900 million tax dollars hang in the balance as Jacksonville's City Council looks to give the final OK to the city budget tonight. There will likely be some last minute changes. Finance Chair John Crescimbeni wants to take about $174,000 out of the clerk of courts budget, the same amount of money Jim Fuller used for bonuses to his employees the past two months Crescimbeni says no department should have bonuses while others have layoffs.

Florida's early voting law will stand. A federal judge upholding the law in a legal challenge brought by Jacksonville Congresswoman Corrine Brown and other Democrats. Brown says she's disappointed by the decision, maintaining Republicans are trying to deny people the right to vote. Duval Supervisor of Elections Jerry Holland says we will have eight, 12 hour days of early voting, the maximum number of hours allowed.

If you have kids in the Duval County Public Schools or you will soon, then today could be one of the most important days in your child's education as the school board selects the man that will be its leader into the future. Three finalists are being considered by the school board at its meeting this afternoon at 4:30. Whoever gets the job will lead a district needing increased student performance and stewardship of your tax dollars.

An apparent drug smuggling boat washes ashore in Flagler County, along with bails of marijuana. We're told by police the boat floated onto a sandbar near Beverly Beach Sunday afternoon and cops found 150 pounds of marijuana aboard. Police say the boat initially capsized offshore Jacksonville earlier this month. It was checked by the Coast Guard and no one was on board. We don't know who owns the boat or where the drugs came from.

When police finally arrested a man for the murder of his wife, he was hiding under a shed. And he was naked. Jacksonville police say 23 year-old Peter Charles John Jensen shot his wife, Karina, with a shotgun during an argument at the couple's garage apartment on Julington Creek Road. Cops say Jensen may have had a large amount of drugs in his system at the time of the shooting Saturday night.

The accuracy of some weather forecasts could be affected because the weather satellite that tracks the East Coast and Atlantic hurricanes is broken. WOKV Chief Meteorologist AccuWeather's Heather Zehr says there is enough coverage with current satellites that it won't dramatically alter our forecasts. The $500 million satellite was launched in 2006 but it was not regularly used to monitor weather until 2010.

 

Our Top National Story: Foreign affairs takes center stage in the White House race with six weeks to go. President Obama steps before the world to declare that anti-American rage and riots among Muslims will never force the United States to backtrack on diplomacy. He's speaking before the United Nations this morning, and in a taped interview with "The View", Obama called the Libyan consulate attack was not just a mob action. Obama says "We are going to hunt down those who did this, we will bring them to justice."

Mitt Romney blasts the President's statement calling the recent violence "bumps in the road", saying Obama clearly has a lack of leadership in that part of the world. Romney today is
outlining plans to rework the U.S. foreign aid system, tying development money to requirements that countries allow U.S. investment and remove trade barriers.

A person of interest has been arrested in the case of a missing University of Florida student. Gainesville police say 18-year-old Pedro Bravo faces third-degree felony charges of depriving a victim of a crime of medical treatment. He was arrested Monday afternoon. 18 year-old Christian Aguilar was last seen Thursday. Police say the two were fighting over a girl.

Iran has test-fired four missiles designed to hit a warship. A semi-official Iranian news agency says the military exercise was conducted in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, close to U.S.-led joint naval maneuvers in the Persian Gulf. The U.S. Navy claims its maneuvers are not directly aimed at Iran.

Residents in rural San Diego, California are waiting to learn the fate of their homes near a 4-square-mile wildfire that's left one man dead. The fire already has destroyed 20 homes.

Officials at the National Zoo in Washington say they won't know why a 6-day-old panda cub died until they get the results of a full necropsy within two weeks. The cub died Sunday morning, less than a week after its birth surprised and delighted zoo officials and visitors. Officials say the cub did have liver abnormalities and fluid in its abdomen.

 
 
 

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